Definitions for percolation
per·co·la·tion

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 3 votes

1. percolation, infiltrationnoun

   the slow passage of a liquid through a filtering medium

   "the percolation of rainwater through the soil"; "the infiltration of seawater through the lava"

2. percolationnoun

   the act of making coffee in a percolator

3. percolationnoun

   the filtration of a liquid for extraction or purification

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. percolationnoun

   the seepage or filtration of a liquid through a porous substance

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Percolationnoun

   The act of straining; purification or separation by straining.

   Etymology: from percolate.

   Experiments touching the straining and passing of bodies one through another, they call percolation. Francis Bacon.

   Water passing through the veins of the earth is rendered fresh and potable, which it cannot be by any percolations we can make, but the saline particles will pass through a tenfold filtre. John Ray, on the Creation.

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1. percolation

   Percolation refers to the process of a liquid or gas slowly passing through a filter, porous substance, or small holes. It can also refer to the spread or gradual dissemination of an idea, influence, or effect through a system, group, or society. In more technical fields like physics, percolation theory involves studying connected clusters in a random graph.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Percolationnoun

   the act or process of percolating, or filtering; filtration; straining. Specifically (Pharm.), the process of exhausting the virtues of a powdered drug by letting a liquid filter slowly through it

2. Etymology: [L. percolatio.]

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1. Percolation

   In physics, chemistry and materials science, percolation concerns the movement and filtering of fluids through porous materials. During the last five decades, percolation theory, an extensive mathematical model of percolation, has brought new understanding and techniques to a broad range of topics in physics, materials science, complex networks, epidemiology as well as in geology. In Geology, percolation is filtration of water through soil and permeable rocks. The water flows to groundwater storage Percolation typically exhibits universality. Statistical physics concepts such as scaling theory, renormalization, phase transition, critical phenomena and fractals are useful to characterize percolation properties. Combinatorics is commonly employed to study percolation thresholds. Applications / specific examples include: ⁕coffee percolation, where the solvent is water, the permeable substance is the coffee grounds, and the soluble constituents are the chemical compounds that give coffee its color, taste, and aroma ⁕movement of weathered material down on a slope under the earth's surface

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of percolation in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of percolation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=percolation
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Percolation
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=percolation
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/percolation
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=percolation